AUTHORIZE

authorize

Verb

  1. To grant (someone) power or authority (to do something specific).
    The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
  2. To give (someone) permission; to sanction or consent.
  3. To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
    The judge authorized the wiretapping.


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